Elgin Opinion
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Lowe, Democrats will help familiesAug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Peter Roskam's current mailing asks his constituents to do some serious budgeting. He advises that in these difficult economic times families need to tighten their belts...
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ECC should focus on citizens firstAug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - I was disappointed to see that Elgin Community College believes the taxpayers want them to help "undocumented students," aka illegal aliens. At their recent faculty conv...
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Just say no to Sen. NolandAug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - This letter is in response to Pete Culver's Aug. 19 letter in which he tries to make the case that Sen. Mike Noland should be re-elected because he supports an income ta...
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Stem cell ruling clouds real issuesAug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - Embryonic stem cell research has once again come to a grinding halt in labs across the country following a federal district judge's ruling that President Obama's expande...
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A question for imam to answerAug 28, 2010 11:00 pm - According to columnist Susan Estrich ("When mosque and convent are analogous," Daily Herald, Aug. 23), both ground zero mosque and convent at Auschwitz are analogous. Un...
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Empathy critical to a just societyAug 27, 2010 11:00 pm - A year ago when President Obama suggested that empathy is an important qualification in Supreme Court nominees, conservatives pounced. In May 2009 Wendy Long, legal coun...
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Build NYC mosque somewhere elseAug 27, 2010 11:00 pm - In Kathleen Parker's column of Aug. 23 regarding Ground Zero For Freedom, she states, "The mosque should be built precisely because we don't like the idea very much." Sh...
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Thank the bartender with your generosityAug 27, 2010 11:00 pm - For five years I've been in the food and beverage industry as a bartender. This is a labor of love. Every time I have a shift I look forward going to work - you never re...
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Make the tough cuts before raising taxesAug 27, 2010 11:00 pm - Ms. Ryg, president of Voices for Illinois Children, in arguing that "the modernization our revenue structure needs to capture economic growth where it exists and improve...
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Let the wealthy carry a larger loadAug 27, 2010 11:00 pm - It's time to start shaming the super rich into carrying a bigger portion of our nation's tax load. Most of us can't imagine what it's like to be worth $100 million, but...